Toyota horsepower

Apparently Toyota Racing Development didn't like what it saw from the horsepower their engines were producing after the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
As a result, Toyota has been working on making adjustments to increase the horspower in its teams' engines. The renovated engines will be ready for the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday.
“Horsepower is always great when you’re selling engines, but it’s not what wins races,” said Lee White, senior vice president of TRD, U.S.A. “What we found out when we got the power curves (after the Atlanta race) was that we did have equal horsepower on the chassis dyno, but at 7,500 and 8,000 rpm we were down by almost 40 horsepower to the teams that are winning all the races. So, we’ve gone back to work since then on the engine we have this weekend. It’s a little different tune which fills that in and the power curve has a much better shape.”
Dale Jarrett, driver of the No. 44 Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing, is hopeful the changes Toyota made will make a difference in races.
“All we can do is hope that what Toyota says they are going to give us will perform on the race track the way they’re telling us it should,” Jarrett said. “We applaud them for making the changes and listening to us to try to give us what we feel like we need. This is another step toward the continued improvement and hopefully it will help all the Toyota teams.”